The basic unit of taxonomic classification.
Questions about identifying an unknown species should not use this tag and instead should use the species-identification tag.
Questions tagged [species]
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Is there a definition of species where Lions and Tigers are the same species?
According to Species concepts
There are at least 26 recognized species concepts
And according to Why are lions and tigers considered different species (not sure how reliable this source is though, but I've seen exactly the same answer in another…
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Why and when did the misconception about the Panther being a species came to be?
People usually call Panther to any big black cat, I did so until I watched Apocalypto and saw they were calling the black cat Jaguar which confused me. (I have no biology knowledge)
It was kind of a shock to discover that Tigers and Lions, among…
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Why do dogs come in all shapes, but cats are generally all the same?
Minus hair and fur, cats (the domestic kind) seem to be just scaled versions of the same thing. Dogs on the other hand can have long necks, short necks, long bodies, short legs, long ears, short ears.....
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How many species have existed on earth?
I found a paper estimating the number of species currently living on earth. Now I'm wondering If anybody tried to estimate the number of species that have lived on earth. I'm familiar with problems of "species concepts". But I'm sure, there is at…
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Name of dominant dinosaur
I seem to remember reading some time ago about a dinosaur appearing very prominently in the fossil record, with continent-wise distribution. The layer is known specifically for having so many fossils of this dinosaur and might be named as such.…
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Cross species effects of Apis mellifera queen pheromones
I am looking for studies that show effects of Apis mellifera queen pheromones on other species. An example of one such study is where A. mellifera queen pheromones deactivated the ovaries of Drosophila melanogaster females. Similarly queen pheromone…
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My daughter taken a photo of a species
My daughter is studying in 4 the std. She is interested in species related study. Pls guide her.
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What are the chemicals present in body of paddle worm which makes it show biolumniscence
Paddle worm is the light emitting species i want to know that
1. What are the chemicals which produce this light?
2. For what purpose it needs this light?
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Does a 2-year-cycle species exist?
Many species sleep for an entire season or travel from one continent to another every year. For all species I know all of these recurring events occur in a period of one year. One might refer to these species as 1-year-cycle species.
I wonder…
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Are black panthers the same as jaguars?
I google the scientific name for black panthers. I get panthera onca. I google panthera onca, and I get jaguar. Can someone explain what is going on? Are they the same? What is the real scientific names for them? Because panthers are black and…
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The meaning of and standards for "specimen numbers"
I just read here:
For example, in the research collection of the Natural History Museum in London, there is a bird specimen numbered 1886.6.24.20. This is a specimen of a kind of bird commonly known as the spotted harrier, which currently bears the…
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Question about the quantity of orchid species and genera
One flower which I am reminded of is the orchid and conjointly, the Orchidaceae family. I am surprised when discovering there is an abundance of species and genera, hence I would like to know the exact number. Moreover, what is the reason, is this a…
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Most well studied termite species or a species that I could use to compare termite genes for functional annotation
I am working with termites and I have a set of genes that I would like to compare with a species similar to termites so that I could elucidate its function. I am looking for a species that is similar to what Drosophila Melanogaster is to bees where…
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What species is most prolific?
What species represents the largest biomass on earth, ie, how much does the entire population weigh? Also, what species has the most members?
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How can two individuals of the same species have different chromosome numbers?
It is known that male drones develop by arrhenotoky, and have haploid chromosome constitution, whereas the queen bee and workers are diploid.
Thus we can see two different types of ploidy occurring in the same species. Sill the drones and queen bee…
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